Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 Peter 1:4

James 2:26 says, “Faith apart from works is dead.” If we’re to experience the fullness of life offered to us through our faith we must put our words into action. We must not profess to love God on Sundays and live as if he isn’t present, real, or good on Monday. May your faith come alive as you seek to be a doer of the word.

What keeps you from praying big prayers? In sharing her story of God's life-changing answers to bold prayers, Julia Jeffress Sadler brings the challenge to take God at His Word and see Him move like never before. This week, we will learn how to pray with boldness and watch expectantly for God's answers. The true rarity is not in God’s answering big prayers but in our asking big prayers.

Here is a simple message for anyone who struggles with identity: give up your need to control how other people see you. Walking through her narrative involving betrayal and pain, Landra Young Hughes discovered life free from self-obsession and self-resentment. She began to hear God’s voice over her own. Within His Word, she found freedom from the cycle of shame and the love and acceptance she had been searching for.

If you have conflict in your life, which we all do, this plan can help you learn healthy ways to overcome it. In this seven day devotional author, trainer, and pastor P. Brian Noble will take you on a journey into God's presence. Encountering God's presence is the best way to learn to love, even in the midst of conflict.

Developing an intimate relationship with the Father through all seasons of life.

Our self-help, DIY culture naturally loves the idea of improvement, but it’s never-quite-enough. That's because we don’t need a renovation; we need a rebirth—an upending of our lives—and that’s something we can’t do ourselves. If you're tired of going through religious motions in your own power and long to experience the heart and life change Jesus promised, it's time to encounter Jesus. It's time to be reborn.

How do we become stronger? What does it mean to see God's strength made perfect in our weakness? We’ll unpack New Testament examples of how God uses weakness to display the gospel to the world. Because of God, our suffering is never without purpose. With insight born from life’s journey, Clayton King shows readers how pain holds purpose, weakness leads to worship, and brokenness becomes blessing.

I Depend is a 7-day devotional by Chris Mendez, pastor of Hillsong Latin America. This devotional is designed to give you hope in the middle of challenging and difficult times.

How can we live more Christ-centred lives? This 7-day plan, based on Rooted in Love, a Lent book from all the area bishops in the Diocese of London, is full of practical encouragement and hope designed to help you to grow as a disciple and find ways to put God at the centre of your life every day.

This plan is a pathway to HOPE—a roadmap through the pain of grief and loss. Whether you’ve lost someone you love, your marriage, your health, or your dreams, you will discover new strength through a new closeness to others and to God. And you will learn how to make the decisions that lead to comfort, growth, and life.

People try to find joy in many different areas of life; relationships, work, money, etc. However, to find true and lasting joy you need something else: a living relationship with Jesus Christ! Join us for one week to see what the Bible says about finding deep joy in God.

Do you find yourself exhausted looking through your newsfeed lately because you feel torn between the ideologies of our time? John Mark Comer encourages us to follow Jesus in an age of increasingly hostile secularism while keeping our hearts tender and open. Finding spiritual renewal in our day starts with recognizing the inner conflict between the lies we live and the truth that brings the peace we long for.

This Thanksgiving season, spend seven days reflecting on your dependence upon the Giver of life and all blessings. Dr. Ramesh Richard, president of RREACH (a Global Proclamation Ministry) and professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, will guide your study and offer pastoral insights on how gratitude should spill over into a way of life. Let’s thank God for all we have and trust Him for all we need.

Things will never "go back to normal." This may seem pessimistic, but author Brent Crowe shows us a time-tested, pandemic-tested approach to a more fulfilling life. Ten Steps to Your Best Life extracts clear steps that Jesus taught for living in and through the most difficult times of transition.

More and more people deal with fear and anxiety in our world today. They feel alone and abandoned by God – fatherless. God’s dream is for a family, and he has paid the price to show his love and adopt us as his children. Follow this powerful devotional that confronts the lies of the Orphan Spirit with the Truth of our loving Father.

Why does God allow suffering? How can we be joyful in all circumstances? When can Christians expect their trials to end? In this seven-day plan, Alistair Begg answers questions like these by diving into classic passages on suffering from Genesis, Job, the Psalms, James, and more.

Some days, walking by faith with delight is easier than others. But Hebrews 12:2 tells us Christ overcame every obstacle to securing our redemption "for the joy set before Him." His delight in saving our souls is meant to be our joy as we believe in Him today. This 7-day devotional provides insight and encouragement for us to settle into God’s grace and seize the joy set before us.

Engage with Heaven daily. Modern society encourages complacency, but God wants to use you to change the world. In this 7-day plan, James Levesque challenges your perspective, transforms your priorities, and urges you to play your part in bringing God’s kingdom to earth. Ignite your faith and harness your gifts for God’s glory.

We, as Christians, have an undeniable inheritance to spiritual royalty. We are called a holy nation as God's children and are entitled the blessings thereof. This plan will provide clarity to our Biblical ancestry and genealogy that is our bloodline. For thousands of years, heroes in history provided the righteous lineage accessible to all believers. We are the beneficiaries of a victorious family tree of warriors and conquerors. Join me in claiming all the greatness within our bloodline.

Rick Warren shows how God uses a predicable pattern and process to develop your faith, so you can realize His dream for your life. Awaken and pursue the custom-made dream that God created you to fulfill. Taken from Rick Warren's, Created to Dream Bible study.

BibleProject designed this plan to help individuals and groups reflect on the theme of hope. What is the difference between optimism and real, living hope? We explore biblical words for “hope” and trace hope-filled themes such as resurrection, the Gospel of God’s Kingdom, the Holy Spirit, and the rejoining of Heaven and Earth.

Hope is defined as a feeling of expectation and an optimistic mindset; wanting something to happen. If you are in a season of waiting or feel like things around you are hopeless, let this plan encourage you to remain steadfast, trusting in Him, so that your strength may be renewed and your life transformed.

Christmas is the perfect time to look back and reflect on all that God did for us in sending Christ to our rescue. As you read this devotional, I pray that you will remember your own rescue and walk into the New Year with the confidence that He will rescue you again from everything that you will need to walk through on the road that lies ahead.

Who am I? The question of identity. A hot-button topic, to be sure. It's a question that often leads us to other pressing issues like, "What is my purpose?" "Does my life even matter?" In this reading plan, Carol Eskaros examines passages in Scripture when other great men of God grappled with their identity and what they learned - it just might surprise you!

We may not always see or feel it, but God is always with us... even when we're going through hard things. In this plan, Finding Hope Coordinator Amy LaRue writes from the heart about her own family's struggle with addiction and how God's joy broke through in their darkest times.